Shoe box for trunks



F. W. MEYER.

SHOE BOX FOB TRUNKSL APPUBATIOI HLED ma 1913.

mm Apr. 11, 1922 PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK w. MEYER, OF OSHIOSH, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE OSEKOSE TRUNK o'ouranr, or osnxosn, WISCONSIN, a conroaarron or wrsoonsm.

SHOE BOX FOB TBUNIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

Application filed August 2!, 1918. Serial No. 251,219.

provide an improved form of means for pivotally and detachably supporting a shoe box in one of the sections of a trunk, so that the box may be='either entirely removed from the trunk when desired, or may be swung about its pivotal connection with the trunk when it is desired to-gain access to the mter1or of the box without removing it entirely from the trunk. I

The invention consists further in the matters hereinafter described and more pttItlCll:

larly pointed out inthe appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front elevational view look ing into the wardrobesection of a wardrobe trunk and showing a shoe box pivotally and detachably supported therein by a form of means constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 2 of Figure l;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary perspectlve view of one end of my improved shoe box, the latter being shown entirely removed from the trunk; and

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view of one of the stop cleats of the wardrobe sectlon and showing the two sets of slots or recesses therein employed with my shoe box construction.

In the drawings, I have shown a trunk 10 of the wardrobe type, and comprising two hinged together upright sections 11 and 12, respectively, the latter being the drawer section and the former the wardrobe section of the trunk. In the wardrobe section 11, I-

end of said section 11 may be opened to permlt access to be had to the garment hangers 15, whlch are suspended from a pair of extensible trolleys 16, 16 provided in the up er portion of the wardro e section 11 for t at purpose. Interposed between the trolleys and the shoe box 13 is an adjustable follower or clothes retainer 17, which may be entirely removed from the trunk'when de sired, as customary in trunks of this general character.

The shoe box 13 is substantially rectangular in shape, and, as shown, comprises a body portion, which when in an upright position has a front wall 18, a bottom wall 19, a top wall 20, and two end walls 21, 21. Said box has a lid or cover portion 22 provided with marginal flanges and hinged at its lower or inner edge b hin s 23 to the bottom wall 19 y ge of said box 13. men the latter is closed and retained in an 11 right position in the trunk section 11, the id or cover 22i forms the rear wall of said box. To look the cover 22 in closed position, I provide suitable fasteners, which may have any form desired, but, as illustrated in the drawings, such fasteners are of the t pe comprising a metal bail or loop 24 hinged or pivoted to the top wall of the lid or cover 22 and a metal keeper 25 fixed to the top wall of the body portion of said box and with which said loop or bail has locking engagement. I have found it preferable to employ two sets of such fasteners, one set adjacent each end of the top wall of the box. Hinged to the top wall of the box intermediate such fasteners is a loop-shaped haudle 26 adapted to be grasped when entirely removing said box 13 from the trunk section 11 and also when swinging the box downward on its pivotal supports with said trunk section when access is to be had into the interior of the box without entirely removing the same from the trunk.

Secured to the inner face of each upright side wall of the wardrobe section 11 and adjacent the outer ed e thereof is a stop cleat 27, which extends upward from the bottom wall of said trunk section 11 to a point short of the trolleys 16 therein, as shown in Fig. 1. Said stop cleats 27, 27 not only serve to strengthen or reinforce the side walls of the wardrobe section 11, but also serve to hold the drawers in the section 12 in lace when the trunk is closed and locked. aid stop cleats 27, 27 pro'ect inward from said trunk walls, and w en the shoe box 13 is located in the trunk section 11 it extends acrom the trunk section between said stop cleats. Each stop cleat 27 is providedwith two recesses or Slots 28, 29. as shown in'Figs. 1 and 4. Each of said recemes opens outward through the front face of the stop cleat, that is, the face which opposes the drawers in the section 12 when the trunk is closed, and, furthermore, each recess opens inward into the trunk section 11 through the side face of the stop cleat. As shown in the drawings, the shoe box 13 has a length slightly less than the distance across the wardrobe section 11 between the stop cleats 27, 27, and between which said shoe box is inserted with its end walls 21, 21 opposed to the inner side faces of said stop cleats and its lid or cover 22 facing the back wall of said trunk section. For pivotally supporting the shoe box 13 in the trunk section 11, I provide each end wall 21 adjacent the bottom thereof with an outwardly extending cylindric pin or trunnion 30 made rigid with said end wall, preferably by having said pin fixed to a flat plate 31, which in turn is secured to said end wall by rivets or like fasteners 32, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Secured to each end wall 21 adjacent the top thereof is an outwardly extending flat lug 33, vertically arranged, and preferably formed on a flat plate 34 secured by rivets or fastening members 35 to the end wall of the box, as shown in said Figs. 1 and 3. 'The trunnions or pins 30, 30 at the bottom of the box are in alignment with each other, and the same relationship exists with respect to the lugs 33, 33 at the top of-the shoe box. The pins 30, 30 are received in the recesses 29, 29, which are the lowermost ones, and the lugs 33 are received in the recesses 28, 28, which are the uppermost ones. When the shoe box 13 is placed in the wardrobe section 11 and the trunnions or pins 30, 30 engaged in the recesses 29, said pins 30 rest on the bottoms of said recesses and thereby pivotally support the shoe box in said trun section 11 above the bottom wall thereof, so that said box may be swung about such pins 30 from a closed or upright position, namely, as shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, to an open position such as shown by dotted lines in said Fig. 2, whereupon the forward end of the box rests on the floor, thereby permitting access to be had to the interior of the box by unlocking the rear wall or cover 22 and swinging it into a substantially upright position about the hinges 23, as shown'in dotted lines in said Fig. 2. The recesses 29 in opening outward through the front faces of the stop cleats 27 permit the shoe box to be entirely removed from the trunk by raising the shoebox bodily upward until the pins 30, 30 reach the outwardly opening upper ends of said recesses 29, whereupon the box may be disconnected irom the stop cleats by moving the box outward and withdrawing the pins entirely from said recesses. To replace the box in the trunk section, the operation is reversed, nameiy, the box, after its lid 22 is locked in closed position, is raised until its pins 30 may be inserted into the open ends of the recesses 29, whereupon the box is allowed to drop by gravity until the pins rest on the bottoms of the recesses, as is apparent. In placing the box in the trunk, it is of course to be understood that the box isheld in position with its lid 22 facing into the trunk section 11. The. flat lugs 33 adjacent the top wall of the shoe box 13 are designed to enter the upper recesses 28, each of which is provided at the bottom thereof with an upwardly extending projection or shoulder 36, behind which the lug 33 rests when the shoe box is in upright osition in the trunk, such as is shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 4. Said projections 36 act as stop-members and prevent the box from being accidentally swung outward and downward on its pivot pins 30. Furthermore, the rear faces of said recesses 28 act as stop-members for said lugs 33 and prevent the shoe box 13 from being swung backward into the trunk section any farther than the required extent. To swing the box downward into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that access may be had to the interior of the box-in the manner before stated, the box is raised bodily upward by grasping the handle 26, or

otherwise, until the lugs 33 are slightly above the projections 36, whereupon the box may be swung downward into the position stated.

The projections 36 are just high enough to hold the box against accidental outward movement when the lugs 33 are behind the same, and consequently in releasing the lugs -from said projections 36, the box need not be raised high enough to enable the pins 30 to be withdrawn from the recesses 29. To swing the box back into its closed position, it isonly necessary to grasp either the box or the handle'and' swing it back into the wardrobe section 11 about the pivot pins 30 until.

the lugs 33 ride over the projections 36 and drop behind the same, as is apparent; the upper edges of the projections 36 and the lower edges of the lugs 33 being beveled to enable such parts toeasily ride over each other during such. movement. To. remove the box 13 entirely from the trunk section 11, it is necessary to first raise the box bodily and swing it outward until the lugs 33 are clear out of the recesses 28, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4, whereupon farther upward movement of the box is required in order to withdraw the pins 30 out of the recesses 29. When the lugs 33 are in the upper recesses '28, the box cannot be removed from the trunk by merely raising the box bodily upward, as the lugs 33 come into contact with the upper faces of said before the. pins 30 are raised far above the bottoms of the recesses 29, 29. As illustrated in the drawings, the pins 30 and lugs 33 are both substantially flush with the front wall 1.8of the shoe box 13, and from this it follows that, when the box is located in the trunk, the front wall ofthe box is substantially flush with the front faces of the stop cleats 27 and does not project outward beyond the same, the result being that the shoe box does not interfere in any manner with the bringing of the two sections 11 and-12 together in the closing of the trunk. The lower recesses 29, 29 are positioned at such a distance above the bottom wall of the trunk that the bottom wall 19 of the "shoe box does not strike the bottom wall of the section 11 in the swinging of the box about its pivot pins 30, 30.

To insure durability of construction, the recesses 28 and 29 are all lined and faced with metal plates, and which metal plates are shaped as shown in the drawings. As illustrated in Fig. 2, the box 13 is tapered transversely so that the box is wider at the bottom than at the top, thereby permitting the bottom portion of said box to extend across the lower part of the section 11, and which part is not occupied by the lower parts of the garments when on said hangers 15. While I have designed the box 13 as a shoe box, yet it is of course to be understood that said box may be used for any other purpose desired. Furthermore, while I have shown and described herein in detail one form of my invention, yet it is to be of course understood that the various details of construction and arrangement of parts shown may be variously changed and modified without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and I do not wish to be limited to the exact dtails of construction and arrangement 0 parts shown, except as exprewed'in the appended claims. i

I claim as my invention: 1. The combination with a section of trunk, of cleats located in and secured to the side walls of said section, a. box inserted in said section between said cleats, and means for pivotally and detachably connecting said box with said cleats, comprisingtwo outwardly opening recesses in each cleat, one of the recesses in each cleat being adjacent the bottom of the box, and the other recess adjacent the top of the box, said box being provided at the ends thereof with pivot pins at the lower front corners of the same to engage in said lowermostrecesses, and with lugs adjacent the top of the box to engage in the uppermost recesses.

2. The combination with a section of a trunk, of cleats located in and secured to the side walls of said section, a box inserted in said section between said cleats, and means for pivotally and detachably connecting said box with said cleats, comprising two outwardly opening recesses in each cleat, one recess in each cleat being adjacent the bottom of the box, and the other recess adjacent the top of the box, said box being provided at the ends thereof with pivot pins to engage in the lowermost recesses, and with vertically arranged flat lugs to enga? in the uppermost recesses.

3. he combination with a section of a trunk, of cleats located in and secured to the side walls of said section and being substantially flush with the outer edges of said side walls, a box inserted in said section between said cleats, and means for pivotally and detachably connecting said box with said cleats, comprising two outwardly opening recesses in each of said cleats, one recess in each cleat being adjacent the bottom of the box, and the other recess in each cleat being adjacent the top of the box, said box being provided at the ends thereof with pivot pins adjacent the bottom of the box and adapted to en ge in said lowermost recesses, and with ugs adjacent the top of the box and adapted to engage in said uppermost recesses, and said pivot pins and lugs being flush with the outer face of said box.

4. The combination with a section of a trunk, of cleats located in and secured to the side walls of said section, a box inserted in said section between'said cleats, and mean for pivotally and detachably connecting said box with said cleats, comprising two outwardly opening recesses in each cleat, one of the recesses in each cleat being adjacent the bottom of the box, and the other recess adjacent the top of the box, said box being'provided at the ends thereof with pivot pins to enga in the lowermost recesses, and with vertically arranged flat lugs adjacent the top of the box to engage in the uppermost recesses; the latter being provided with upright projections forming stop-members behind which said lugs enage, and the lower edges of said lugs and t e upper edges of said projections be inclined to permit the lugs to ride inwar over said projections.

5. The combination with a section of a trunk, of cleats located in and secured to the side walls of said section, a box inserted in said section between said cleats, and means for pivotall and detachably conmeeting said box with said cleats, compris ing two recesses in each cleat, one of the recesses in each cleat being adjacent the bottom of the box, and the other recess being adjacent the top of said box and having a substantially flat bottom wsii, said box b ing provided at the ends thereof with pivot pins to engage in the lowermost recesses, and with vertically arranged fist lugs adjecefit the top of the box to engage in the uppermost recesses; the latter being rovided. with. upright projections exten ing 10 above the bottom Walis thereof and forming stop-members behind which said lugs en age.

n testimon that I claim the feregoing as. my invention, 1 aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses, thxs 21st day 15 

